Emerging Adults' Relationship with Caregivers and their Romantic Attachment: Quality Communication Helps.
Objectives: Caregivers play an influential role in their child's romantic attachment representations in emerging adulthood. In the current research, we explored one possible mechanism underlying this connection, the quality of caregiver-child communication about romantic relationships as indexed by...
| Published in: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 28; no. 12; pp. 3412 - 3425 |
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Dec2019
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